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Review: A Riveting Account of a Nation of Fear, I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile’s Dictatorship, 1975, by Kathleen Osberger

Kathleen Osberger’s account of her three harrowing months as a religious volunteer with a community of Catholic nuns in Chile a half century ago brings the reader deep into the […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • September 6, 2023
    • Essays , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Who We Lost Meets the Loss and Sorrow of COVID with Grace and Fury

    Who We Lost: A Portable COVID Memorial, edited by Martha Greenwald and published by Belt Publishing, started out on Greenwald’s website WhoWeLost.org, an online, crowd-sourced memorial to those who perished […]

  • Caitlin Archer-Helke
  • July 5, 2023
    • Art & Museums , Chicago history , Lit , Music , Nonfiction , Photography

    Review: You Weren’t There, but He Was: Kill a Punk for Rock and Roll, by Marty Perez

    According to the foreword of Kill a Punk for Rock and Roll, music photographer Marty Perez is a very likable guy. The fact that providing a bio in the book […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • May 30, 2023
    • Art & Museums , Lit , Nonfiction , Poetry

    Review: The Epic Question Mark of Western Lit, Homer: The Very Idea, by James I. Porter

    Nobody knows anything about Homer except what’s in the Iliad and the Odyssey, and, even there, it gets dicey, as James I. Porter details in his challenging and provocative Homer: […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 8, 2023
    • Chicago history , Chicago history , Games & Tech , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: When Illinois Base Ball (sic) Was for Fun, Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins: Inside Early Baseball in Illinois, by Robert D. Sampson

    In the handful of years after the Civil War, Illinoisans went crazy for baseball, a game that was then spelled as two words “base ball.” By 1868, however, an editor of […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • May 2, 2023
    • Cafes and restaurants , Chicago history , Chicago history , Food , Lit , Nonfiction , Suburbs and exurbs

    Review: Ignoring and Then Extracting Ghetto Gold, White Burgers, Black Cash, by Naa Oyo A. Kwate

    Naa Oyo A. Kwate, the author of White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation, will be in conversation with Stacey Sutton on Thursday, April 27, at […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • April 24, 2023
    • Lit , Zines

    Review: Used Records & Tapes Zine Offers Plenty of Memories and Music

    According to both mainstream and social media, Generation X spends half its time being ignored and the other half feeling uncomfortably “seen.” In the most current example of “seen-ness,” Gen […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • March 12, 2023
    • Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: The Marshal Who “Could Spit and Bust a Brick in Two,” Black Gun, Silver Star, by Art T. Burton

    It is important that there is a book such as Art T. Burton’s Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshall Bass Reeves to ensure the memory […]

  • Patrick T. Reardon
  • February 13, 2023
    • Chicago history , Children's books , Essays , Fiction , Lists , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    2022 in Review: A Lit Retrospective

    What was 2022 like in the world of Chicago, Illinois, and Midwest letters? I’ve asked the Lit section writers to share their favorite reviews and stories of the past year. […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • January 5, 2023
    • Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction , Reviews

    Review: Gay Old Times, Last Call Chicago, by Rick Karlin and St. Sukie de la Croix

    Last Call Chicago is not a narrative book. Rather it is an extensive listing with brief descriptions of 1,001 LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly bars and such. But it is also a […]

  • June Sawyers
  • November 4, 2022
    • Chicago history , Interviews , Lit , Nonfiction

    Interview: Making Fun—Jeffrey Breslow’s 30+ Years of Toy and Game Making

    Some jobs don’t sound like work. A perfect example: Jeffrey Breslow’s decades-long career as a designer, developer, and partner at one of the most successful toy- and game-making companies of […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • October 22, 2022
    • Architecture , Chicago history , Lit , Nonfiction

    Review: The City in Your Pocket, AIA Guide to Chicago

    Chicago is so much more than its buildings…still they’re hard to miss. Ever since Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable built his home on the Chicago River’s banks, structures have risen […]

  • Dan Kelly
  • September 27, 2022
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